1 event, 2 days, infinite potential.

8:30 AM

UiPath CMO, Bobby Patrick, kicks off day one of FORWARD III with an overview of automation progress in society and insight into what the automation first era means for today’s enterprise.

Bobby Patrick, Chief Marketing Officer, UiPath

8:45 AM

UiPath Chief Product Officer, Param Kahlon takes us into the future of RPA with an overview of the UiPath platform innovation. Featuring demos and stories from cutting-edge customers you will learn what’s coming next from UiPath.

Param Kahlon, Chief Product Officer, UiPath | David Johnston, Manager, Intelligent Automation & Process Excellence, Heritage Bank | Oleg Royz, Vice President - Global Digital Transformation / RPA, Nielsen | Ravi Boggaram, CTO Sr Director, Digital Services, PepsiCo | Amit Zavery, VP Product and Engineering, Google Cloud

11:45 AM

Amazon, SiriusXM-Pandora, and Uber have continually used technology to move faster than the competition, create better customer experiences and win their markets. In this panel discussion, learn how they are adopting an automation first mindset to stay on top.

Diego Lomanto, VP of Product Marketing, UiPath | Delphine Bernard, Global Head of Finance Operations, Uber | Jonathan Finch, Assistant Treasurer, Amazon | Abe Khaleeli, Head of PMO & Intelligent Automation Practice, Pandora

Oleg Royz, Vice President - Global Digital Transformation / RPA, Nielsen

Mia Leondakis, Vice President – Business Transformation and Automation, VMware | Emilie Ly, Sr. Director, Business Apps Support for Business Transformation and Automation Team, VMware

David Hunter, Strategic Product Manager, Ericsson

Iulia Istrate, Enabling Technologies Product Owner, UiPath | Alexandru Statie, Global Vice President Presales, UiPath

Tarek Madkour, Director of Product Management, UiPath | Craig Dewar, Director, Product Marketing RPA, UiPath

Anton McGonnell, Director, Product Management - AI, UiPath | Erik Goelz, Director, Head of AI Product Marketing, UiPath

Bogdan Ripa, VP, Product Management, UiPath

4:45 PM

Through one of the most sophisticated scaled RPA implementations in the world, UnitedHealth Group (UHG) has been using RPA to bend the cost curve of healthcare, improve internal operations and enhance patient care. Hear Jolene Gardner, UHG’s SVP of Automation, and Rob Wood, Senior Director Automation, present their RPA journey and the impact it’s had on the lives of their customers.

Jolene Gardner, SVP of Automation, UHG | Rob Wood, Senior Director Automation, UHG

5:15 PM

Daniel Dines, Founder, and CEO of UiPath shares his vision of what’s next for UiPath and the automation industry. Featuring special guests across the technology landscape and the leading companies that are driving RPA in their business.

Daniel Dines, Founder and CEO, UiPath | Sameer Chauhan, CEO, UNICC | Arik Hill, CIO, Foundling | Rob Whitaker, Lead Automation Engineer, AGILITY

8:30 AM

Guy Kirkwood, UiPath Chief Evangelist, shares his predictions for the RPA market in 2020. These insightful, cutting-edge tips will help you start the new year ahead of the pack.

Guy Kirkwood, Chief Evangelist, UiPath

8:45 AM

Craig Le Clair, Forrester Vice-President and author of Invisible Robots in the Quiet of the Night shares research on RPA adoption, best practices and what steps practitioners need to take today to ensure that no one is left behind in a world of automation and AI.

Craig Le Clair, Vice-President, Forrester

11:35 AM

EY is moving to attended automation scale using UiPath technology. Part of a global deployment to tens of thousands of users, this initiative has a focus on adding next-generation use cases with attended automation capabilities to significantly improve user experience and process performance.

Jeff Aldridge, Americas Intelligent Automation Leader, EY Global | Goutham Goudgere, Attended Automation Project Leader, EY Global | Sanjay Sadasivan, Attended Automation Functional Leader, EY Global

11:55 AM

Hear about NextEra’s automation journey–from the beginning through growth and onto the next wave of scaling up. Here, NextEra will share best practices on establishing a Center of Excellence, using data to drive a successful implementation and internal alignment around gaining/missing anticipated benefits. With help from Cognizant, NextEra has been able to reduce their cycle times by 50%, realize a $10 million annual savings, and uncover a backlog of over 100 new opportunities.

Clemmie Malley, Enterprise RPA COE Lead, NextEra | Mariesa Coughanour, Managing Principal Intelligent Automation and Technology, Cognizant

12:15 PM

Bayview Asset Management, a multi-billion-dollar Investment Management firm, had a fundamental need to digitally transform their business through automation. Bayview established an Enterprise Optimization Transformation (EOT) function; an Enterprise-wide team that focuses on people, process improvement, and new technologies. The EOT’s foundation relies on a need for efficiency and RPA satisfies this need. To develop and scale these initiatives, Bayview required resources that were well versed in Process Improvement, Intelligent Automation, and RPA Methodology, so they sought partnership with Accelirate. To date, their digital workforce consists of over 70 robots that house over 160 automations and an annualized returns in the millions.

Armando Lambert, VP Enterprise Optimization, Bayview | Zia Bhutta, CEO & Managing Partner, Accelirate

12:25 PM

The human body uses its nucleus and DNA to protect, replicate, and regulate growth. Similarly, NTT has created its unique automation DNA that lays out, step-by-step, how to automate the most impactful solutions organization-wide. Leveraging the Novatio Nucleus™ Intelligent scaling framework, NTT was able to protect core security, infrastructure, governance, internal control, and risk management strategies while globally scaling their solution 40% faster.

Vincent Sciotto, Sr. Dir. Automation and AI, NTT Data | Gokul N. Solai, CEO, Novatio Solutions

Nishant Redekar, Solution Architect, Process Automation, Wärtsilä

Christian Voigt, Co-Founder, Roboyo | Robert Kennedy, Global Head of Intelligent Automation Delivery, Capgemini | Alexandru Statie, Global Vice President Presales, UiPath

Rupesh Gaikwad, COE Lead and Chief Evangelist, Amdocs

Christian Berg, Director, Product Management AI, UiPath | Harish Doddala, Director, Product Management, UiPath

Justin Marks, Principal Product Manager, UiPath | Liji Kunnath, Principal Product Manager, UiPath

4:35 PM

Discover how you can prepare society for an automated world with Tom Clancy, Senior Vice President - UiPath Learning. In addition to highlighting how UiPath Learning has trained more than 400,000 RPA students around the world, Tom will announce exciting educational partnerships that fuel the 'automation first' era, present transformative universities teaching RPA, and reveal how you can share the benefits of automation with your alma mater or favorite nonprofit.

Tom Clancy, SVP of Learning, UiPath | Kurt Carlson, Associate Dean of Faculty and Academic Affairs, Mason School of Business, College of William & Mary | Matt Poole, Strategic Program Manager, The University of Auckland

Bucharest, Romania is where our story began. But today, we’ve evolved into a vibrant RPA community of people who are learning, creating, and collaborating around the globe to make a robot for every person a reality. In this special celebration, we're inviting a handful of our most incredible community members to share how they’re using automation to change not only their lives — and our world.

Tejus Venkatesh, Chief Evangelist - India and APAC, UiPath